The last passage : recovering a death of our own / Donald Heinz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinz, Donald, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Psychological aspects--United States.

Death.

Death--Social aspects--United States.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author calls for the reinvestment of dying with the rituals that once gave it spiritual and social meaning, surveying the many ways death has been treated throughout history and demonstrating how the arts might lend a renewed reverence to death. UP.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Dying and Reviving of Death; CHAPTER 2 Imagining Death; CHAPTER 3 The Lost Art of Dying; CHAPTER 4 The Last Career; CHAPTER 5 Finishing the Story; CHAPTER 6 Along the Ritual Way; CHAPTER 7 Ritual Quarrying: Bodies in Motion; CHAPTER 8 Ritual Quarrying: The Arts and Letters of Hope; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-289) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773989-X

1-280-47019-4

0-19-802760-5

1-60256-222-9

OCLC:

171572017